New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-31
NEED OF 4 NEW MUSEUM BUILDING.

A BILL PROVIDING ONE TO BE INTRODUCED AT
ALBANY-sCIENTIFIC EXHIBITS CROWDED.
bill providing for a museum building for the
American Museum Of Natural History will be presented
In the Legislature to-day In the Senate it will be intro
duced by Senator Punk and in the Assembly by Robert
Ray Hamilton The bill has the approval OF Mayor Hew-
it, who Is Of the trustees OF the museum and OF the
Park Commissioners, under whose direction the addition
will be constructed Professor Albert g. Bcsnore, who
will 90 to Albany to-day will take with him petition
signed BY nearly 5000 public school teachers in favor Of
the new structure, in which there will be lecture hall
Tor the teachers. Another petition is signed by the
property in the neghborhood Of the museum and
by the trustees and members who contribute TO its
port including Morris K Jeup, the president; Joseph
Il. Choae, ]. Pierpont Morgan. William Z. Dodge, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Heber r Bishop Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Lanier and others.
The bill empowers the Department Of Parks, with the
Of the Board Of Estimate and Apportion-
ment to construct building large enough TO display
the exhibits stored away for want of room and TO
contain lecture hall for teachers Of the State artisans
and mechanics The Board of Estimate is authorized to
issue 100000 in bonds at per cent payable in thirty
years.
For three years the trustees OF the have been
endeayoring to this addition the building which
IL overcrowded with exhibits that scarcely more
than half of them be displayed is calculated that
will require nearly three complete the
begun and than half Of the space
then be occupied.
The Museum Of Natural History incorporated in
1862 but it not until 1876 that the present structure
was completed. The whole Of Manhattan-sq square,
bounded by Central Park Nnth-ave, seventy-seventh
and Eighty first $751; has been set apart for the
The present building is single wing, the nucleus OF
the future museum. When the addition being pro.
vided for Is complete, the buildings will represent the
letter f. the structure forming the piece The
structure will face Seventy-seventh-st. Tho
lecture hall will occupy the first and second floors and
will seat 1000 persons Beyond the lecture hall. the
same floor will be rooms prepared tor the exhibition OF
the objects that have been the subject OF the lecture
Morris X Jesup. who contributed the exhibit OF the
Woods OF American Forests few years ago. has now
secured at his own expense, another valuable conrbu-
ton This Is arriving at the and consists
Of samples OF building stones from ill parts OF the
United states There will be In all about 1900 spcci-
and the collection Will comprise at least spec
from every quarry In the country that has ever
yielded stone OF commercial value. These specimens
prepared In cubic blocks four inches square. Each
side Is treated different to show the character OF the
stone under such treatment. The Government will
The OF these specimens they arrive placed in
the Railways. there Is room for displaying them.
They will require about half OF one OF the floors
full exhibit OF them cannot be made until the build
Ing complete At least quarter OF the wood exhibit
Is also stored away until more space s provided.
The library OF the museum, under the OF a. Wood
ward, is also suffering from lack of contribution
of II. j. Jewet of $50 volumes Natural Science Is
packed away. The trouble Is experienced III the
pathological Department. the Department Of Marine
Zoology and the chronological Department